# List of philosophers born in the 18th century

Philosophers born in the 18th century (and others important in the history of philosophy), listed alphabetically:
       Note: This list has a minimal criterion for inclusion and the relevance to philosophy of some individuals on the list is disputed.
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## A

* Jacob Friedrich von Abel, (1751–1829)
* John Abercrombie, (1780–1844)
* Johann Heinrich Abicht, (1762–1816)
* John Adams, (1735–1826)
* Francesco Algarotti, (1712–1764)
* Archibald Alison, (1757–1839)
* John Allen, (1771–1843)
* Anton Wilhelm Amo, (1703 – c. 1759)
* Robert Aspland, (1782–1845)
* Georg Anton Friedrich Ast, (1778–1841)
* John Austin, (1790–1859)
* Pierre Hyacinthe Azais, (1766–1845)

## B

* Franz Xaver von Baader, (1765–1841)
* Charles Babbage, (1791–1871)
* Samuel Bailey, (1791–1870)
* Pierre-Simon Ballanche, (1776–1847)
* John Ballantyne, (1778–1830)
* Christoph Gottfried Bardili, (1761–1808)
* Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, (1714–1762)
* James Beattie, (1735–1803)
* Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria, (1738–1794)
* Jacob Sigismund Beck, (1761–1840)
* Charles Bell, (1774–1842)
* Thomas Belsham, (1750–1829)
* William Belsham, (1752–1829)
* Friedrich Eduard Beneke, (1798–1854)
* Jeremy Bentham, (1748–1832)
* William Blackstone, (1723–1780)
* Hugh Blair, (1718–1800)
* William Blake, (1757–1827)
* Robert Blakey, (1795–1878)
* Bernard Bolzano, (1781–1848)*
* Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald, (1754–1840)
* Charles Bonnet, (1720–1793)
* Rudjer Boscovich, (1711–1787)
* David Brewster, (1781–1868)
* Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, (1755–1826)
* Benjamin Collins Brodie, (1783–1862)
* Henry Brougham, (1778–1868)
* Thomas Brown, (1778–1820)
* Robert Buchanan, (1786–1873)
* Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, (1707–1788)
* William Burdon, (1764–1818)
* Edmund Burke, (1729–1797)
* Lawrence Butterworth, (1740–1828)

## C

* Pierre Jean George Cabanis, (1757–1808)
* George Campbell, (1719–1796)
* Thomas Carlyle, (1795–1881)
* Petr Iakovlevich Chaadev, (1794–1856)
* Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus, (1796–1862)
* Chang Hsueh-ch'eng (or Zhang Xuecheng), (1738–1801)
* Tasan Chông Yagyong, (1762–1836)
* Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772–1834)
* Auguste Comte, (1798–1857)
* Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, (1715–1780)
* Marquis de Condorcet, (1743–1794)
* Benjamin Constant, (1767–1830)
* Victor Cousin, (1792–1867)
* Johann Ulrich von Cramer, (1706–1772)
* Christian August Crusius, (1715–1775)

## D

* Jean le Rond d'Alembert, (1717–1783)
* Joseph de Maistre, (1753–1821)
* Emerich de Vattel, (1714–1767)
* Denis Diderot, (1713–1784)
* Émilie du Châtelet, (1706–1749)

## E

* Johann Augustus Eberhard, (1739–1809)
* Jonathan Edwards, (1703–1758)

## F

* Adam Ferguson, (1723–1816)
* Johann Gottlieb Fichte, (1762–1814)
* Immanuel Hermann Fichte, (1797–1879)
* David Fordyce, (1711–1751)
* Charles Fourier, (1772–1837)
* Benjamin Franklin, (1706–1790)
* Jakob Friedrich Fries, (1773–1843)

## G

* Alexander Gerard, (1728–1795)
* Giacinto Sigismondo Gerdil, (1718–1802)
* Thomas Gisbourne, (1758–1846)
* William Godwin, (1756–1836)
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749–1832)
* George Grote, (1794–1871)

## H

* Johann Georg Hamann, (1730–1788)
* Sir William Hamilton, (1788–1856)
* Renn Dickson Hampden, (1793–1868)
* David Hartley, (1705–1757)
* Julius Charles Hare, (1795–1855)
* Graves Chamney Haughton, (1788–1849)
* Laetitia Matilda Hawkins, (1759–1851)
* David Ramsay Hay, (1798–1866)
* Mary Hays, (1760–1843)
* Francis Haywood, (1798–1858)
* William Hazlitt, (1778–1830)
* G.W.F. Hegel, (1770–1831)
* Claude Adrien Helvétius, (1715–1771)
* Johann Friedrich Herbart, (1776–1841)
* Johann Gottfried Herder, (1744–1803)
* John Herschel, (1792–1871)
* Samuel Heywood, (1753–1828)
* Laurens Perseus Hickok, (1798–1888)
* Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Hinrichs, (1794–1861)
* Thomas Hodgskin, (1787–1869)
* Josef Hoëné-Wronski, (1778–1853)
* Baron d'Holbach, (1723–1789)
* Friedrich Hölderlin, (1770–1843)
* John Hoppus, (1789–1875)
* Wilhelm von Humboldt, (1767–1835)*
* David Hume, (1711–1776)

## J

* Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, (1743–1819)
* Thomas Jefferson, (1743–1826)
* Alexander Bryan Johnson, (1786–1867)
* Dr. Samuel Johnson, (1709–1784)
* Théodore Simon Jouffroy, (1796–1842)

## K

* Theophilos Kairis (1784–1853)
* Immanuel Kant, (1724–1804)*
* Heinrich von Kleist, (1777–1811)
* Richard Payne Knight, (1750–1824)
* Martin Knutzen, (1713–1751)
* Hugo Kołłątaj, (1750–1812)
* Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, (1781–1832)
* Nachman Krochmal, (1785–1840)
* Wilhelm Traugott Krug, (1770–1842)

## L

* Julien Offray de La Mettrie, (1709–1751)
* Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, (1744–1829)
* Johann Heinrich Lambert, (1728–1777)
* Lamennais, (1752–1854)
* Pierre-Simon Laplace, (1749–1827)
* Pierre Laromiguière, (1756–1837)
* Giacomo Leopardi, (1798–1837)
* Pierre Leroux, (1798–1871)
* Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, (1729–1781)
* Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, (1742–1799)
* Carl Linnaeus, (1707–1778)

## M

* Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, (1709–1785)
* Salomon Maimon (or Salomon ben Joshua), (1753–1800)
* Maine de Biran, (1766–1824)
* Moses Mendelssohn, (1729–1786)
* James Mill, (1773–1836)
* John Millar, (1735–1801)
* Lord Monboddo (or James Burnett), (1714–1799)
* Motoori Norinaga, (1730–1801)

## N

* Novalis, (1772–1801)

## O

* Lorenz Oken, (1779–1851)
* James Oswald, (1703–1793)

## P

* Thomas Paine, (1737–1809)
* William Paley, (1743–1805)
* Thomas Percival, (1740–1804)
* Issac de Pinto, (1715–1787)
* Richard Price, (1723–1791)
* Joseph Priestley, (1733–1804)

## R

* Daniel Raymond, (1786–1849)
* August Wilhelm Rehberg, (fl. late 18th century)*
* Thomas Reid, (1710–1796)
* Karl Leonhard Reinhold, (1757–1823)
* David Ricardo, (1772–1823)
* Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, (1797–1855)
* Jean Jacques Rousseau, (1712–1778)
* Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, (1760–1825)
* Pierre Paul Royer-Collard, (1763–1845)

## S

* Mulla Hadi Sabzevari, (1797–1873)
* Marquis de Sade, (1740–1814)
* Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, (1760–1825)
* Friedrich Carl von Savigny, (1779–1861)
* Friedrich Schelling, (1775–1852)
* Friedrich Schiller, (1759–1805)
* Friedrich von Schlegel, (1772–1829)*
* Friedrich Schleiermacher, (1768–1834)
* Arthur Schopenhauer, (1788–1860)
* Gottlob Ernst Schulze, (1761–1833)
* Shah Wali Allah (or Qutb al-Din Ahmad al-Rahim or Waliullah), (1703–1762)
* Lady Mary Shepherd, (1777–1847)
* Heinrich Christoph Wilhelm Sigwart, (1789–1844)
* Hryhori Skovoroda, (1722–1794)
* Adam Smith, (1723–1790)
* Jan Sniadecki, (1756–1830)
* Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger, (1780–1890)
* Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, (1766–1817)
* Stanisław Staszic, (1755–1826)
* Dugald Stewart, (1753–1828)

## T

* Tai Chen (or Dai Zhen or Tai Tung-Yuan), (1724–1777)
* Johannes Nikolaus Tetens, (1736–1807)
* William Thompson, (1775–1833)
* Tominaga Nakamoto, (1715–1746)
* Abraham Tucker, (1705–1774)

## V

* Emerich de Vattel, (1714–1767)
* Vauvenargues, (1715–1747)

## W

* William Whewell, (1794–1866)
* John Witherspoon, (1723–1794)
* Mary Wollstonecraft, (1759–1797)

## Y

* Yü Cheng-hsieh, (1775–1840)
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